Jonathan replies Obasanjo through proxy

Jonathan replies Obasanjo through proxy
on december 21, 2013 at 9:58 pm in news
*Ex-Senate President accuses him of inciting mob
action
Soni Daniel, Abuja
In what appears as an indirect response by
President Goodluck Jonathan to the letter written
him by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a pro-
Jonathan politician, Senator Ameh Ebute, yesterday,
blasted Obasanjo for daring to castigate Jonathan
for the nation’s woes.
The former senator accused Obasanjo of instituting
unprecedented corruption in Nigeria and trying
desperately to illegally extend his tenure for selfish
reasons, thereby lacking the credibility to accuse
Jonathan of any wrongdoing.
Ebute, a one-time Senate President of Nigeria,
responded in an 18-pages letter  to the letter fired
by Obasanjo to Jonathan, in which he accused the
president of failing the nation in several ways and
committing blunders that threaten to destroy the
country.
The politician, who did not say whether he was
authorised by the Jonathan or not, however, wrote
as if he was a spokesman for the Presidency,
blaming Obasanjo for the current problems in
Nigeria, which Jonathan was battling to resolve.
Ebute noted, “As an obsessed letter writer, Chief
Obasanjo may unwittingly view his tirades against
sitting governments as building a legacy to be
celebrated when he departs; he does not see the
effects of debasement, deformation, destruction,
disunity, hatred and defamation in his actions.
“Selfless leaders with character build peace, build
harmony, build unity and build love. However, it
appears our erstwhile President has lost it all. Like
what Billy Graham said, “When character is lost, all
is lost”.
He said that Obasanjo had no moral grounds to
accuse Jonathan of destroying the People’s
Democratic Party, having himself been responsible
for the crisis currently rocking the party.
According to the politician, it was Obasanjo, who
planted the seed of discord that is threatening the
party and not Jonathan.
“It is ridiculous that Chief Obasanjo, a self-
acclaimed democrat, should accuse President
Goodluck Jonathan as the one responsible for the
lingering crisis in PDP, which pre-dated his
emergence as the leader of the party”, Ebute said.
” President Jonathan’s alleged crime is his refusal
to publicly denounce those craving his return in
2015. Chief Obasanjo further accused President
Jonathan of clandestinely dictating the actions of
the party Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. These
unsubstantiated claims posit a curious but intriguing
parallel and calls for self-examination on the part of
the Owu Chief.
“When in 2002, before INEC officially signaled
political activities for the 2003 elections, posters
and propaganda materials adorned all nooks and
crannies of Nigeria for Chief Obasanjo’s re-election,
how many of such people did he publicly denounce?
” Even when it became open knowledge in 2005 that
Chief Obasanjo surreptitiously attempted to use his
cronies to insert in the output of the National
Political Reform Conference a clause to elongate his
tenure for a third term, since he thought it was only
he who had the single inalienable right to rule
Nigeria for life, did hereunder any public denial?
“Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has no moral credentials
to accuse President Jonathan of responsibility for
the travails of the PDP. These crises, as earlier
noted, predate the incumbent leader of the party.”
Read the Ex-Senate President’s letter